Gaming - Yes Linux and Proton and all, but it just won't be as good I know it. All new and old games are basically guaranteed to run best on Windows due to the massive userbase, what other choice do devs have?
Work - I work on Windows clients and Windows Server, so I need to know my way around the OS. The tooling with Powershell is nice now, too. The workflow with window snapping is actually also excellent.
Entertainment - All "official" streaming Netflix stuff runs at 4k and I can also run VPN and torrent just fine on Windows.
Stability - I run an old rig on Windows 10 privately and a work Win11 laptop. Nowadays, you only need to reboot Windows once a month for updates.
And all the good apps runs like Firefox, Ocular, sumatraPDF etc...
I'm not actually out to convince you to change, just sayin' - it's not the only dog on show and I'm doing fine without.
Nobody will force you but I felt MS certainly pushed me away hard.
At home I don't get reboots when I don't want to.
At work Windows did that to the workstation at work here last weekend - really infuriating that one.
There's too much to list re: 20 years of windows decline.
There's some good no doubt, I'm expect the kernel has been getting gradual if not huge improvements. It's just the rest of the company is not run like the core engineers would be required to.
All the other shit hanging of it is overwhelmingly bad. It's too much, too user hostile, too dark patterned.
How they messed up the near perfect Win2k gui to this... yuck.
It's all just too much, for me at least. So I left it on a dedicated disk but is practically never booted anymore. Maybe once a year. If that.
I've been many years gaming, developing, doing my tax, spreadsheets, watching media, web surfing - it's all much the same. I use firefox at work or home. It feels the same at work on windows as it does on home. I have no need.
I'm pretty sure the sum of my experiences are unique - just like everybody else's!
I expect many of my experiences are mirrored by others - as well as not. What's the point again?
It's their product. They didn't have to make it trash but they've not just let it, they made it by design this way.
Why eat trash?